A Thought for Every Day – Live in the Moment

Today is my birthday, and it is a “milestone” birthday; fifty-five. At this point in life, as I contemplate the passing years I see certain events I viewed as “coincidence” as anything but coincidence. It never ceases to amaze me how life continues to remind me there is no such thing as coincidence.

This morning I was reading an article by Maria Shriver in AARP:The Magazine about her journey through Alzheimer’s with her father, Sargent Shriver.  In the last line of the article, when responding to how she deals with her father’s illness and the possibility that someday she could have Alzheimer’s,  she simply says, “I live in the moment.” Later in a comment about the Masters Golf Tournament, former PGA golfer and current ESPN golf-analyst Andy North stated that the way you keep cool when faced with the prospect of winning a “Major” golf championship is to “stay in the moment” on each shot.

These back-to-back “coincidences” reminded me that the present is all we really have. The past is but a memory while the future is pure potential. We plan for the future but the only piece of time that is truly ours is “right now.” We can’t change the past, but we can learn from the past and have a hand in creating the future if our plans are congruent with how we choose to live in the moment.

So what are you doing right now? Simple; you are reading this article with the hope that you will learn something that will benefit your business. This investment of time provides the potential for unbelievable return if you take this concept and focus on being completely present in each moment of the day. Don’t waste the time spent reading this by not moving towards your goals by executing behaviors that support those goals.

So how do you create maximum ROI on the last two short minutes?  Where do you go from here?

• Review your scheduled activities for the day.
• Ask yourself if the activities you have planned support your objectives.
• Execute the most important activities first, and choose to be in that moment.

One last question; do you really think it was coincidence that you read this article?

Good selling!